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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14

THE papers are discussing the question,
have women souls? One paper AYERS that
"the invention of soul for woman is
modern, and is not yet prevalent. This
may be called the testimony Of instinct,
or OF universal consciousness. Science,
however, cannot receive instinct as evil
dence OF anything" Science ma hest
tate 10 cOEcede soul to woman, for it
hesitates TO concede a God 10 man; but
the man who was born Of woman, who
has been the recipient of her gracious
tenderness, whose pain and anguish have
been relieved by the ministeriug angels
whose place no man can fill, will say in
his heart: "If there be no soul in woman
there can be no God anywhere, for surely
woman, more than man, gives outward
evidence of having soul" And this
much may as well be admitted now: If
women have no souls, 1t is unnecessary
for them TO have any, for they are good
enough as they are. The good Lord
knew what he was doing when He Gre
ated woman.
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ASEA CAPTAINS STORY.
Terrible Suferipgs of a Crew shipwrecked
of Newfoundland.

of newfoundland.
HALIFAX, n. S., Jan. S-Capt. Carey
OF the schooner Muncie which was wrecked
on December n, near johnson Island,
Cape Breton, arrived here yesterday. He
tells terrible story of the suferings of
the crew of the wrecked vessel. The
Muncie left Georgetown, Prince Edwards
Island, December %, for st. Johns, N. S.,
with cargo of produce. On the second
day out, While passing through Bras Dor
straits, terrific snow storm was en-
countered. The wind blew a hurricane,
and the vessel would not hold
by her anchors. She dritted, or
was blown about by the winds
until she struck the rocks in the vicinity
Of Johnson's island. Holes were knocked
in her and the water poured in. The crew
consisted of Capt. Carey and four men,
who were covered with ice, so much so as
to almost prevent their making efforts to
to save their lives. All five got into one
boat and pulled away from the sinking
vessel. They could see no land, and had
completely lost their reckoning. After
pulling aimlessly about for nearly an hour
they fortunately struck Johpson's island,
where they landed and went in search Of
some human habitstions. This was no
easy task, for the men had the great
est difficulty in keeping themselves
from freezing, and being covered with
ice, they were twice their natural size and
weight. After walking around for three
hours, one of their number, John Gathral,
got so exhausted he could 80 no further.
His companions uged him on, but he was
unable to make the effort. The members
of the party were just st the point of
freezing. Gathral lay down and almost
Immediately became unconscious, ard
in few minutes he was dead,
frozen solid. The others pushed on, e1-
pecting soon to meet similar fate. They
were strangely fortunate, however, for
before they had gone half a mile they
came upon house In which they took
shelter apd were cared for. The dead
body Of their companion was taken to
the house and the next day buried. Capt
Carey owned the vessel, which is a total
loss and was uninsured.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14

MR.. GEORGE c. PENDLEToS, who will
probably be the next speaker of the Tey as
house of representatives, is represented
by THE GAzETTE's Bolton correspondent
as being in favor of aid to the drouth
sufferers, if there is found to be need oft.
ellis idea is not to give the aid in the
shape of donation from tie state, but as
a loan; to pass a bill authorizing each
county to issue bonds to raise funds for
the support Of the destitute within its
own border, the state giving such assur
ance of the payment of the bonds as
would cause them to sell at par; in fact
to pass an act authorizing each county to
borrow money for the relief of its own
sufferers, with the state of Texas as
security. Further aid should be given by
de:erring the payment of taxes in that
district, so as to enable the people to
make another crop, or other crops if
necessary, before the payment"
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
TO BREAK THE WILL.

''YouDg Peter McCleIIand of Waco
Enters Suit to Break His Fathers VIII.
Special to the Gazette.
WACO, Ten, Jan. 9.-Peter McClelland
died three months ago, the second richest
man in Waco. He owned block after
block of business houses, residences, ur-
improved lots, United States bonds,
bank stock and cash. The monthly
rental from the buildings brings in an in
come Of over IS Quo pr month. The
heirs to this vast property were wife,
aged, and one sor, 4 man thirty-three
years old, Peter, junior. Instead of
dividing the property between these two,
the old man left the entire estate in the
hands Of two trustees, J 4 Gilbert, I
banker, and William L. Prather, law
yer. BY the terms Of the will they
are to hold it in trust for the
term of twenty-five years, paving the
widow and son an annuity of $500 each
The income of the estate is to be so in
vested as to build up and increase the
value of the estate. At the end Of
quarter OF century the trustees are to
turn over the property to the widow and
the son, if they (the trustees) believe the
son will manage the property wisely and
discreetly. The trustees are not required
to give bond; they have absolute control
Of the property. "Young Peter" as the
son is Familiarity known here, has entered
suit 10 the district cour: to break
the-will. He alleges in his petition that
he is mentally capacitated to manage his
property; that his habits are good, his
health sound, and sets forth, IN effect,
that his deceased father was Of unsound
mind and under improper influences when
the VIII was made. The people here
wondered very much at the disposition
made of the estate, and most of them
seem to think that young McClelland was
very nninStlV rented.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14

RECENT discoveries of coal and other
minerals in Texas point to new indus
tries and open out wider field for our
enterprising citizens, and at the same
time hold out new inducements to the
capital, brain and Drawn of the over pop
ulated East to come and settle among US.
The marble stratas, granite mountains
and coal discoveries in Burnet county
near Marble Falls is one instance of the
many that are being reported from diff
ferent sections of the state. The coal is
of the bituminous quality, and from
present indications will, when the vein is
worked, prove to be good class of coal
A sample of this coal in THE GAZETTE
office indicates it's future value to Burnet
and the state.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14

drawing from other portions Of the state,
as the country became more and more
thickly settled, few of the large cattle
owners reached the Panhandle, and found
the land excellently adapted to their busi-
ness. In places, it is true, the country is
broken and rugged, but on the levels aod
in the valleys water abounds and luxuri-
ant mesquite grass fourishes. For the
last ten years or so the 'barons of the
barbed wire have held the Panhandle
with much profit to themselves.
"Now, however, the days of these
gatherings are numbered. During their
reign it was discovered that very large
proportion of the land is exceedingly
rich and well suited to farming. Only
the distance from any line of railroad
prevented the rapid influx of settlers.
"To-day the innux of settlers, keeping
road, mas begun. Two lines of railway
have entered the Panhandle, one-the
Fort Worth and Denver-from the south
east, the other-the Southern Kansas,
! aiming to connect Kiowa and FL Paso-
from the north. At the point where
these lines are expected to intersect each
other, in Carson county, new town
will spring into existence. month
ago Carson county did not contain
single inhsbitant within it's boundaries.
Yet in the last week of 1886, forty or fifty
sections of the county were taken ~.
Probably by the close of the present year
Carson and the adjoining counties will be
Il settled, and the land will rapidly rise
in value. The unsurpassed healthfulness
of the climate in the Panhandle, where
malaria and all kindred maladies are IN
known, and the easy terms on which land
may be at present obtained, render it like
" that rush in that direction will be
made by the immigrants who pour stead
lily into Texas from Europe and the
North.n
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14

consider, remember, 1 say "con-
sider," the ACCESSIBILITY of reduc-
ing these taxes, 154 members of con-
gress composed of l31 Republicans and
%! Democrats. maintained by their
vote that the question should not even be
considered. Remember, further, that for
the $500, 100000 customs revenue that
goes into the treasury you, my fellow
citizens, pay at lesst $1,000, 100000 into
the pockets of monopolists every year.
regret that I:shall spoil your Christmas
cheer. But if reason, common sense,
fair play, and independence, which ought
to be the distinguishing marks of the
American citizen, is not entirely sub
dued, this very little Christmas present
may prove more useful TO the
future welfare of this free land
than anything that you could
possibly have received during the year.
There was time in this country when
such uncontradicted wrong and legal rob
berry was properly snd lawfully resented.
How much of this spirit of freedom and
independence Is left in the present gen
ation to lift up not their han,is, but
their voices, in defense of their rights it
is for you to decide. Respectfully your
felloW-citize J. S. MOORE,
New York, Wednesday, Dec. %, 1886.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14

THE Northern heart and pocket should re-
spond promptly and generously to the call f'om
Texas. 1t is an established fact that 1890 per
sons in the drouth scourged district of that
state are in desper tie need of food and cloth
ing.-[Chicaso Herald
Spoken as the Herald always speaks,
and in the name of the suffering THE
GAZETTE speaks thanks. Texas will do
its duty in the premises, but legal action
is slow, and while We wait for legislative
enactment, men and women and children
endure sore privation and want.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
TIE ROBBER TARIFF.
Tine Champion Tariff swtndle OF the World.
n Collection OF Statistics Moro Useful
than Amu-inG,

Tho Champion Tariff Swtndls Of the World.
a CoIection of Statistics Moro Useful
than Amu-ing.
Letter in New York Times.
There are many Christmas books,
pamphlets and leaflets published that in
general are more amusing than useful
Allow me, my fellow citizens, to present
you with 3 brief collection of statistics
that will, am sorry to say, be more use
full than amusing. herewith give an ex-
tract Of only small number of articles
that my be called luxuries and others
that certainly are neCessarieS of life,
which place in parallel columns to show
how they are respectively taxed by the
present tariff, and, without further
preface, here they are
DUTY ON ARTICLES OF LUXURY.
Ottar of roses, free.
Naroli, or orange flower oil, free.
Diamonds, 10 per cent.
Raw silk, free.
Jewelry, % per cent.
Gold studs, % per cent.
Finest still wines, in bottles, 90 per
cent.
Finest thread lace, 80 per cent.
Fine Au5uSsOn and Administer carpets,
costing abroad S2.77 yard, As per cent.
Finest India sha Wis, costing abroad say
$40 pound weight, S. cents e pound and
40 per cent. I'd yalorem, or say 403 per
cent.
Silk stockings, 80 per cent.
Finest broadcloth, costing So a pound
abroad, So cents pound and 40 per
cent, equal to about Al per cent.
10 fOia nor
Musical instruments of all kinds, %
per cent.
Duty on quart bottles Of champagne,
costing abroad 81 bottle, SIS cents.
= Curry and curry powder free.
Olives, green or prepared, free.
Spices of all kinds, free.
DUTY ON ARTICLES OF NECESSITY.
Castor oil, $50 per cent.
Linseed oil, 62 per cent.
Common window glass, 81 per cent.
Raw wool, As per cent.
Steel rails, S. per cent.
Horseshoe nails, llG per cent.
Cheapest mixed wooden goods, costing
abroad p cents per yard, II per cent.
Spool thread, 81 per cent.
Common druggets, costing abroad %
cents yard, 81 per cent.
Common wooleC shawls, costing
abroad IS cents a pound, Sc per cent.
Common worsted stockings, costing 90
cents pound abroad, 10 per cent.
Common cloth, costing So cents 6
pound abroad, duty So cents pound and
IS per cent. ad vaIorem, equal to 50 per
cent.
Rice, LOG per cent.
Galvanized wire smaller than No. l6
and not smaller than No. 90 wire gauge, |
1872 per cent; smaller than No. 20, l55
per cent
Duty on dollars worth Of bleached
cotton fabric, costing abroad % cents
square yard, 6Gi cents.
Potatoes, Is cents duty per bushel.
Corn starch, 851 per cent. duty.
Sat, s. per cent. duty.
OF course this ls only a drop in the |
bucket OF thousands of other items that
might be treated in a similar manner.
And now challenge the journals who
uphold our tariff system.
l. To print the above list, which repre-
sents the greatest legal swindle of the
age. And
2. To expIain and indicate the justice
of retaining these enormous taxations. l
wish further to remind you, my fellow
citizens, that when the question came
up in the house last Saturday to
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14

through the curtains of the only window,
looking upon little garden. Like the
pictures of pale saints in Greek church,
the figure Of the young girl is set of
against the white hedclothes. Her eyes
are closed. Does she dream? Does she
think? Her beautiful face is quite calm.
Sometimes her mother opens the
heavy eyes, at which the girl seems to
become troubled in her sleep, and
her cheeks become slightly tinged with
color. Her hands are as cold IS those of
a corpse; she is very thin; her breathing
is scarcely perceptible, and she is fed on
nothing but peptone. During the thre-
years that she has been in this state of
lethargy she has never been troubled by
any indispos!tion, and she does not seem
to have grown day older. A committee
of special physicians is just about to
make a careful Investigation of the case.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
ALTAR AND TOMB.
The Gazette's Record of Marriages and
Deaths In Texas.

MARRIAGES..
W. J. Scott and Miss Martha Sheridan,
Gatesville, December so.
c. T. Caruth and Miss Nellie Bone,
Gatesville, December %.
Hon. Charles Todd snd Miss Minnie
Burke, Texarkana, January 6.
Edward Killinger and Miss Lille Rau,
San Marcos, January 5.
G. c. Freeman and Miss Lille Johnson,
Sherman, January 5.
Rev. J. W. Mathews and Miss Mollie
BOmar, Whitney, December %.
d. c. Howell and Miss Belle Price, ST..
10, January 2.
DR.. j. L. Harper and Miss Kittie
Phillips, Rosston, January 8.
J. J. Niece and Miss Florence S. Jones,
Hillsboro, January I.
J. S. Watson and Miss Fannie Brandon,
Hill county, January 4.
John Wilson and MISS Emma Brown,
Palestine, January l.
Charles S. Bedford and Miss Mollie E.
Carothers, Georgetown, December %.
James Ross and Miss Nettie Brooks,
Hendricks, December 30.
JOhn Hays and Miss Ids Roman, Hen
bricks, DECEMBER so.
Capt. j. Baker and Miss Lula Hand,
Cleburne, January 6.
J. r. Warren and Miss Daisie Boren,
Gilner, December 81.
A. A Callahan and Miss Tenie Rey-
nolds, Gilmer, December 2l.
Alex Huffman and Miss Minnie C. Kirk
man, Milan county, December 30
Stephen W. Wilson and Miss Birdie
Boone, Navasota, December 30.
r. d. Murphy and Miss Ida n. Sigler,
Denton, January3.
James Ward aud Miss Exile Cass, Usage,
Dece mber 26.
Will Bolin and Hiss DAME Crowder,
DaingeIteld, December so.
DR.. W. 7. Jones and Miss Ollie NJ.
SNYDER, Georgetown, January c.
G. c. Freeman and Miss Salle Johnson,
Sherman, January 5.
James Meredith and Miss Claudia
Braly, Alvarado, December 80.
Claude Richardson aud Miss Lizzie otln-
son, Albany, January 8.
Robert c. Martin and Miss Ellen Young,
Marshall, January 4.
James S. Blackman and Mrs. Susan
Allen, near Gabriel Mills, January 2.
S. A. Goodman, Van Alstyne, Jan
usry l.
Robert Watson, near Mckinney, De-
cember 90.
Mrs. S. V. Raves, Texsrkaus, Jan
uary s.
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HORRIBLE DEPRAYITY.
Insane Women in an Ohio Asylum Out
ragged by Superintendent

Insane Women in an Ohio Asylum Out
ragged by q Superintendent
AKRON, OHIO, Jan. S.-Hearing was in
progress to-day in the case Of George
Keich, late superintendent of the III
sane department of the county in
hrmary, charged with the betrayal
of an insane girl. Superintendent Ham
lin, who makes the charge, was on the
stand and admitted that FIVE others, per
sons besides Keich, including Hsmlin, had
keys to the woman's department of the
insane ward, and that some time ago
another insane girl had given
birth to a child. At that time male
psuper who had key to the woman's' de-
cartment was charged with the ofense
and was disciplined by beng locked up
several days. 1t was brought out also that
an imbecile woman keeps the door between
the male and female departments of the
crazy-house and that the mildly insane
and lmbecileyof both sexes have easy &C.
cess to EACH other. The case will con-
tinue next week.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14

THE Texas murderer kills his victim
with bullets; the Massachusetts, murderer
stabs his victim in the back of the neck
with carving knife, cuts his legs and
arms and head off and "starts with the
corpse on his pony for the country" at
proper distances along the road the head
and arms and legs are dropped. After
all, it is only difference of civilization,
the Texan being somewhat less cold
blooded in the execution of his brutal in
stincfs
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
Pail Mall Gazette.

A singular case of lethargy is reported
from the French village of Thenelle, in
the department of Alsne, of which q
picturesque account is given in the indie
pendance Beige. Close to the village
drinking fountain there is little red cot
tage in which, since June l, 1883, Mar
guerite Boyenval has lam in deep lethsr-
gic sleep. This cottage consists OF two
rooms; in one the family lives, in the
other, which is cold and damp, the Sleep
ing girl is lying. A feeble light falls
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

The coming greatness of the grand
section to the northwest of Fort Worth,
and which this city is binding to itself
by iron bands, and with whose Develop
ment and progress and prosperity Fort
Worth is SO earnestly in sympathy and
seeks so persistently to promote, is be-
coming known of men in other lands.
The following from the New Orleans
TimesDemocrat will give some idea of
the attention now being directed to
section which is destined 20 become the
granary of Texas: Chat corner of Texas
inclosed between New Mexico and the
Indian Territory, long deygnated as the
Llano Estacado' (StsIdx IPlain), and
now as 'the Panhandle, Was, couple OF
decadesago, practically an unknown land.
A general idea prevailed that it was
nothing more than bowling waste,
utterly uninhabitable by civilized people
and but scantily frequented even by the
Indians.
"The Texas cattlemen were the first to
the fallacy of this notion. With
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14

The Randall tail to the Republican mi
nority in the house is q survival of an
cient Federalism, Old-Line-Whiggery
and defunct Known othingism. In the pro-
cess OF political change this rudimentary
remnant OF decayed parties drifted into
the Democracy, which, in its liberal and
catholic spirit, takes into its bosom all
corners. The remnant has become NOR
bid excrescense of parasiticai fungus.0&
the body of the Democracy, Fbtfs~ffen
that party shall be restored to its healthy
and normal growth the encumbrance will
drop of.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
PETROLEUM..
The Genuine Article to be Had in the
Neighborhood CT Palestine.

The Genuine Article to be Had in the
NeighborhOod CT Palestine.
Special to The Gazette.
PALESTINE, TEX, Jan. -Four years
ago Mr.. James Logan, who owns tract
of land seven miles east of Palestine, at
tempted to sink well, but after going
several feet was compelled to abandon
the project on account of the rapid inflow
of thick oily substance resembling pc
trOleum. On close examination Mr..
Logan found many specimens of surface
coal heavily impregnated with oil and
several springs cropping out. The
springs were discovered by breaking
through heavy cakes Of encrusted pc
trolsum. Mr.. Samuel Dexter recently
purchased q half interest in the property
and sending specimens of coal to DR.. Z.
Schmidt, Houston chemist, received
frsm him this morning a complete aEaly-
sis which confirms the existence of heavy
petroleum in large quantities on the
premises. Arrangements are nov being
negotiated 10 bore the ground ana make
a complete test.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
P0RDERLY'S TALK.
lie Has No Information of ANY Dissatis
faction.

lie Has No Information of ANY Dfssatis.
faction.
PHILADEI PHIA, PA, Jan. S.-Geuerai
Master Workman Powderly was inter-
rogated last night concerning the re-
ports of dissatisfaction among Knights,of
Labor in different sections of the country.
When asked whether lie had received eny
petitions from district assemblies askinr
that special session of the general as
sembly for the order be called, he said:
81 have not heard word about g special
session yet from anybody inside the order.
All that ] have heard is the discussion
OF the subject in the newspapers. [ don't
see where the information comes from
that is printed in the newspapers. have
received letters from these very localities
where dissatisfaction is said to exist, ald
they are all Of the most loyal character.
In Chicago, even where the trouble is
said t. have started among the members
OF District Assembly "a, l understand per-
feet harmony exists. have constant COM
munication with District Master Workman
Butler, who is said TO be the fiercest of
all in his opposition to the general exc
cu:iv5 board, aud he writes in the most
friendly terms. | understood no such
resolutions az were credited TO District
Assembly q were passed by that body,
and reports to the contrary published in
the papers give the only intimaJion |
have received of any bad state OF feeling"
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
The Change of Gauge.

Special TO the Gazette.
WACO, TEX, Jan. 9.-The cold weather
to-day interferred with the programme of
changing the gauge of the St. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas Rlilrosd. Inquiry
at the company's office this evening de-
veloped the fact tina: the following has
been decided upon: The gauge will be
broadened from Texarkana to TYLER to-
morrow, from Tyler to Waco Tuesday,
from Waco to Gainesville Wednesday.
The company has 15UO laborers who can
be utilized in this work.
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Prompt 81 Attenuation Of erents and ne'rS happen
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INDIVIDUALS.
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FISHING co.